Notes

[NI4974] 1850 Decatur Co., TN Census: Morning Rushing is in the household of Burrell and Sarah Rushing, her age is 16 born: Tennessee.

[NI4979] Subject: Re: Rushing
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 07:42:51 -0400
From: Wayne Timbs
To: Dan Rushing

Hi Dan,

First off let me say the Wallace family I have info on lived in Lafayette
county Arkansas and Riley's birth date was January 24, 1828 I believe in
Tennessee and he died in July 23, 1901, while Sarah was born July 04, 1836
and died in November 22, 1899. They were married on May 09, 1852. There
is in the Fed land records in this county of his land that you may want to
check. You let me know if this fits into what you have for them and we can
add the others from there. As for me I am just starting my tree and have
lots of work ahead so not sure what help I might need to keep it moving...Grin

Cheers,
Wayne Timbs
Wayne's World BBS

[NI4988] The house lived in by Burrell Rushing later came to be known as the Townsend House. The following is from Lillye Younger's "History of Decatur County."
"Townsend House, an Ante-Bellum house in Parsons has an interesting history despite the fact it is still a home.

"It is a picturesque colonial house, perched on a hill, overlooking a crest of fertile farm land and green pastures with cattle grazing lands, about one mile east of Parsons on the old Perryville road.

"It was formerly a two-story log house, chinked with mud, which was built during the 1830's.... It was built with an open hall through the center of the house, which was called a 'dog trot' back then....

"The house was sold to Burl [sic.] Rushing in 1844.... Some years later he married Sarah Houston and they lived here. During the civil war days "Aunt Sarah" as she was called, sat on the front porch all day during the battle of Shilo and could hear the roar of the cannons from the battles, a distance of 50 miles. Many years later she entertained her grandchildren with accounts of this incident.

"During the war the guerillas entered the couple's home in search of gold an d strung up her husband in an effort to get him to tell where the gold was hidden. Each time they tightened the rope, he refused. During the episode the Confederate soldiers came by and the guerillas fled. Mrs. Rushing released her husband who was strung up over the spot where the gold was buried.

"Under the living room floor of the house was a hideout, which could be reached by a secret trap door to the floor."

While the story above places the blame on Union raiders, in actuality it probably was a crime of a local band of outlaws. The tactic is the same as used by a local outlaw, Lem Bussell (later a preacher), against the Myracle family. The house later passed to Sarah's second husband, Rennie Raines, and to his son Lennie Rains. It passed out of the family by sale in 1918. The auction at which it was sold was a major event remembered for years by many people in the community.

(Above from the notes of David Donahue 1994, other sources named in article)

[NI4993] notes for Nancy Deason Rushing: The family of Nancy and David Rushing is proven in the records of the settlement of the estate of Enoch Deason Rushing in Sumter Co., AL.

[NI4999] REBECCA RUSHING JACKSON (Circa 1805-After 1860)

Rebecca was the daughter of David Rushing and Nancy Deason. She was born circa 1805 and died after the 1860 census. She may be buried at Smith Chapel, Henderson Co., TN. In the 1850 census she is a widow living next to her brother William Gilbert Rushing in Decatur County. Her husband was John Jackson who died circa 1849. The name of her husband is proven in Anson Co., NC, Deed Book 13, page 139, dated December 3, 1849. "William H. Bennett & wife to Griffin Avitt, Power of Atty--W. H. & wife, Temperance, formerly Temperance Jackson of Co. of Decatur, State of TN to receive for us a sum of money in the hands of Darling Rushing, guardian of said Temperance Jackson $200 more or less her portion in the estate of John Jackson deceased late of Union County, NC. Attest: William G. Rushing/John Garrett."

Children:

* Stephen Jackson (born circa 1820). He was born in SC and in 1850 is in Sumter Co., AL. He was a farmer.
* Temporance A. Jackson (born circa 1828). She married William H. Bennett (born circa 1826). He was a merchant.
* Richard A. Jackson (born circa 1829). He was born in NC and in 1850 is in Sumter Co., AL. He was a farmer.
* Frances Emiline Jackson (December 16, 1833-November 26, 1910). She was born in NC and died in the Garrett Community, Decatur Co., TN. She married Jeremiah Benton (Jerry) Welch (circa 1829-April 22, 1900), son of Nicholas Welch and Nancy White. Both are buried in Campground Cemetery, Decatur Co., TN. He was a farmer.
* James Holden Jackson (May 1, 1837-November 14, 1908). He was born in Anson Co., NC, and died in Henderson Co., TN. He is buried at Smith Chapel, Henderson Co., TN. He married, first, S. Elizabeth (born circa 1841), circa 1859. Divorce, circa 1867. He married, second, Elender (Ellen) J. (Elizabeth) Reed (June 23, 1847-February 23, 1883), daughter of James Reed and Minerva, circa 1868. She is buried at Smith Chapel. James Holden Jackson is ancestor of the Jacksons in the Middleburg area of Henderson County. The family of James Holden Jackson is covered in a 1992 book titled The Descendants of James Holden Jackson by Joel F. Jackson of Jackson, Tennessee. This book contains detailed sketches of James Holden Jackson, his wives, and each of his children.


[notes of David Donahue date unknown]

More on Rebecca Rushing Jackson:
Rebecca Jackson is listed on the Perry County, Tennessee US Census of 1840 with 1 male child age 5-10, one male child age 10-15, one male child 15-20, one female child 5-10 and one female child 10-15. There was no husband listed. Rebecca Jackson, Nancy Rushing and Mary Bennett are listed side by side on the 1840 Perry Co., Tennessee US Census, all heads of households.

[NI5002] There is no evidence for Jane being a daughter of David Rushing and Nancy Deason, this placement seems completely arbitrary.

[NI5010] Nancy's middle name is known from the application of W. H. H. Rushing for a state pension for Confederate Army veterans. However, W. H. H. Rushing's handwriting is not easily read and Nancy's middle name has been read variously as Graves, Graces, and Grace. Following the death of Asa Rushing, Nancy and some of her children moved to Shelby County, Texas. Nancy died there in 1875.
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letter from Brad Rushing to Dan Rushing, January, 1999.

Subject: Still More Information for you!
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 03:27:40 EST

The name of Asa RUSHING's wife Nancy Graves HENDRICKS's father was Henry
Hendricks

His son, Elijah J. RUSHING's middle name is James

10.John Bateman RUSHING

John Bateman Rushing's spelled his wife's name "Sally." (You have her listed
as Sarah (Sallie) STACK. I do seem to recall reading that her name was Sarah,
but I can't find that reference at the moment.)


You have John Bateman and Sally's wedding date 5 Dec 1867, while he records it
as December 4, 1867 (He was 85 when he wrote it. Maybe he got it wrong. I
don't know what your source is, though.)

Here are some names to replace the initials you have in his children's names:

1.William H. RUSHING - Henry (My Great Grandfather)
2.Nettie F. RUSHING - Francis
3.Allie RUSHING
4.Tennessee Sarah RUSHING (He records her name "Sarah Tennessee Rushing")
5.John G. RUSHING - Green
6.A.E. RUSHING - Asa Eligah
7.A.O. RUSHING - Alonzo Ollie

William H. RUSHING was born in Shady Grove, Nacogdoches Co., TX and died in
July 1962

His wife, Nannie K. BRYAN was born in 1879 and died about 1974. Her middle
initial was for "Kelly" and her parents were Andrew Bacon Bryan (b: 1844) and
Nancy Kelley McClellan. Andrew Bacon Bryan's parents were Allen Bryan and
Sarah Pou (I can't really make out the spelling of her last name. But that is
my best guess.) Both from Salem, Alabama

They had one child:

John Bryan Rushing, MD (?,1903 - ?,1994) - Texas
1st Wife: Vlasta Kopecky Rushing (18? - 198?)
Children:
John Bryan Rushing, Jr. ( Living date removed )
Nancy Rushing ( Living date removed )
2nd Wife: Marife: Bonnie

John Bryan Rushing, Jr. ( Living date removed )
Wife: Mary Elizabeth Mack Rushing ( Living date removed )
Children:
John Bradley Rushing ( Living date removed ) -This is Brad Rushing DP and web site sponsor.
William Jeffery Rushing ( Living date removed )
Sharon Margaret Rushing ( Living date removed )

I will ask my father for the correct dates on William Henry's and John Bryan's
families and get those to you. I also have extensive family trees for my
mother's and grandmother's families if you would like those.

[NI5011] Green B. D. Rushing was born August 22, 1826, the oldest of 11 children born to Asa and Nancy G. (Hendrick) Rushing, both natives of NC. Asa Rushing was a planter and a strong Whig. In 1824, he visited Perry, now Decatur County, and in January, 1827, moved from Anson County, NC locating on the south side of the Beech River, 3 miles west of where Decaturville now stands. Asa Rushing died in 1851. His wife, Nancy went to Texas with Green and lived there until her death in 1875. Green began teaching school in Decatur County when he was 21 and continued until he left for Shelby County, Texas in 1853. During the Civil War, he enlisted in Company A, 28th Dismounted Cavalry. At the close of the war, he returned to Shelby County, Texas where he was elected to the office of collector and assessor of taxes. January 8, 1852, he married Sarah J. Stevens, who died in September, 1877. She was the mother of 3 children. In 1879, Green returned to Decatur County and soon married Elizabeth Shipman. In 1886, he was elected recorder for Decatur County.

[NI5019] Notes for Temperance: See Also Temperence, Temporence, Tempy, Tempe, Tempie

[NI5025] Note: John Bateman Rushing (21 Apr 1845- 24 Apr 1936) was born in Decatur County, Tennessee. He and part of his family moved to Texas before the Civil War. He lived in Nacogdoches County, Texas and is buried there in the Bethel Cemetery. This autobiography exists in at least two version, both probably edited from a missing original.


[Autobiography of John Bateman Rushing]
Appleby, Texas, April 21, 1930

This being my 85th birthday and my children having requested that I give them for scrap-book purposes and as a family memorial a sketch of my ancestors, as well as of my own life, also the lives of various people of pioneer days. I have decided to do so, or at least do the best I can in this regard. I was born in Decatur county, Tennessee, in the year 1845. My father, Asa Rushing, was born in Anson county, North Carolina, December 25, 1801. Grandfather Jason Rushing was also born in North Carolina, but the date is forgotten. My great-grandfather came from England in colonial days to a free country where he could worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and where there was none to molest or make afraid under their own vine and fig tree, so to speak. There were two brothers, Mark and Solomon. One of them was my paternal ancestor, but I do not know which one, but from the history that I have been able to gather on the subject, I am persuaded that it was Mark, because of the fact that there are several of that name in the Rushing family. The two men had sixteen children, thirty-two in all, and I believe mostly sons. Thus it may be seen that the Rushings had a fairly good start in an early day. My grandfather, Jason Rushing, had twelve children, seven sons and five daughters. My father, Asa Rushing, had ten children, four sons and six daughters. Of this large family, I am the youngest. I have in my own immediate family, seven children, four sons and three daughters.

I will first give a sketch of the early life of my father. He was married to Nancy G. Hendricks in 1825 and at that date Tennessee was considered a new country. It was way out west, so to speak, and so they decided to move there and build up with the country. My father had a good horse and a one-horse wagon. So the couple put all their earthly possessions in that wagon, hitched up and moved. It is a part of our family history that my mother did most of the driving, because the roads were very rough, thus through the vast wilderness they made their way to their new home. Others who traveled with them traveled in a similar way. In fact, in that day and time there were very few wagons. The country was thinly settled and land was cheap. Arriving in the locality where they decided to locate, they stopped, pitched camp and went to work. In the new country, they were happy beyond measure.

In this connection I will tell this story; a story that my dear mother used to tell me about her girlhood days. In that day there were no cotton gins. The only way to separate the seed from the lint was to pick the seed out with their fingers. The good housewives would then card the lint into rolls with the old fashioned hand cards, and spin it into thread on the old fashioned spinning wheel. Then warp it and harness it up in the old fashioned loom, and weave it into cloth. They would then cut out the garments and sew them together by hand. The custom to get the seed and lint separated was to give an old time party well mixed with work and fun. Some good mother would invite the young people to come together for that purpose. After the work was finished, they would spend the remainder of the night in fun and frolic. The first step taken was for the young men to select a girl, one each, as partners, to be in the work and in the fun. The hostess would then ask each youngster to slip off his left shoe and she would take it and fill it with cotton in the seed. The couple would have to pick out enough lint to fill the shoe before they could take part in the fun. The girl who had a partner with a number eleven shoe had a hard time. The social gatherings were sources of much pleasure in pioneer days.

My father and mother were charter members of New Hope church, the first Baptist church organized in that part of the country. My father died in 1850, leaving mother to care for the children. Her main thoughts were to plant in their hearts a christian spirit and this she did by precept and example. A few years after the death of my father, my oldest brother, Green Rushing, married and moved to Texas. He was so well pleased with the new country that he at once got busy writing to us in Tennessee what a delightful place it was and that all that a home would cost would be just to file on the 160 acres of land, have it surveyed and then send the field notes to Austin and get a patent to it. The total cost being seven dollars and fifty cents, and the best land could be bought for fifty cents an acre. So it just seemed to us that the honey pond and fritter tree was surely in Texas.

We loaded our household effects on a wagon and moved to Texas in 1857. We came down the Mississippi river in a steam boat, having traveled the same way down the Tennessee and Ohio rivers to get to the Mississippi river. We came down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Red river, and then up that river to Shreveport, then on ox wagons to Texas. This being the only way of transportation in pioneer days. We crossed the Sabine river at Logansport into Shelby county, and that county was my home until the Civil War. After crossing the Sabine river, and getting into the promised land, our attention was first attracted to the thinly settled condition of the country, it being several miles from one settlement to another. When we came to a house, it was just a small log house, often not having but one door, a stick and dirt chimney, and more often a dirt floor. The house was covered with long boards having rib poles to hold the boards on to keep the wind from blowing them off. Wild animals and
birds were in abundance. One could often count fifteen to twenty deer in a bunch. There were wolves, some panthers, an occasional bear, plenty of wildcats and various other kinds of wild animals. The woods were full of turkeys, squirrels, quail and other game which made the matter of living very easy. The streams were full of fish of various kinds, and the woods were full of
various kinds of snakes. We had no matches in those days and so when fire went out, we took a piece of flint and steel of some kind, piled a quantity of dry shavings mixed with powder and holding the flint in one hand, over the pile struck the flint with the piece of steel. The spark fell into the shavings and powder, and produced a flash which caught the shavings, and we had a fire. Most boys and men always carried their flint and steel in their pockets. Hogs got fat in the woods on the mast. The creeks and
branches had canebreaks on them, which made it easy for cattle to live on the open range winter and summer. We always had plenty of meat, but had no cans in which to place the lard. We raised large gourds. Some of these gourds would hold half a bushel of shelled corn. We let these great gourds dry, then cleaned them, and used them for various purposes. We used smaller gourds for drinking purposes. In those days we had no free schools, nor public money. The school houses were few and far apart, and when you came to one, it was just a plain little log house like those in which the people lived. It had puncheon floor, if any floor at all, the puncheon floor being made of logs split half and half, laid flat side up, which was smoothed down with a broadaxe and footadze. The same kind of log was used for seats, turned flat side up with two holes forced in each end, into which long pegs were inserted and which answered the purpose of logs. The benches had no backs. The school house had one door, and it was in the side of the house, and on the opposite side a crooked log was so placed as to make a window or
opening for light. A slab was used for a writing table. This was the school outfit we had in the good old days. There were no penpoints or pencils. We wrote with goose quill pens and the teacher was supposed to know how to make these pens. The teacher always carried his chair with him, and if any of the pupils wanted to know about a word or anything, they would have to walk across the house and ask him. Most teachers had a long switch handy, and if the pupils did not obey him, he would not hesitate to use it. If he caught any of the pupils acting contrary to the rules, he would pitch the switch to them, and make them bring it to him, and they either got a good lecture, or a licking. I have often seen as many as six or seven bringing the switch to the teacher. During these exciting times, the school was at ease. The teacher required the pupils to spell out loud while they were getting their lessons. If they should calm down he would rap the floor and say "Spell Out," and if t

The women wore cotton homespun dresses and home-made bonnets. The men wore dark dyed pants and straw or wool hats. The rich men had bee-gum hats, but the girls in their home spun dresses looked just as sweet as they do now with all the artificial work and paint, and starch and powder that they can put on. We all wore home made shoes. We tanned our leather in troughs and made the shoes at home. One pair each year was all the shoes a child got. When we went to church we rode horseback, went in ox-carts, or walked. I can say with all my heart that the old pioneer preacher always had a message worth while, for his congregation. As a rule he always had good attention. There was not a cook stove in all the country. Our mothers used the old pot-rack that hung in the chimney. They hung the pot on it and then built the fire under it. The old skillet,
the oven, and the frying pan were the main cooking utensils. We had the johnycake in the ashes which was a great rarity. There were only a few mills in the country and often we would have to go twenty miles to mill and even then have to let the corn stay there two weeks in order to get it ground into meal. So it happened that in order to get meal, we would sometimes have to use the "gritter," as it was called. We just soaked the corn in water so it would not come off the cob so easy while being gritted, as it was called. Sometimes we would borrow meal from a neighbor and when people lived as near to each other as eight miles away, they were neighbors. When building or raising our houses, log houses, we would ask hands to help us, who lived as far as eight miles away. Many of the settlers would have to go fifteen miles to mail their letters, or to get the mail.

We now come to my early manhood and the war between the states. The war started in 1861 and the boys began to enlist in several of the companies. So I was enthused and desired to join the army of the Confederacy. On the 28th day of January, 1862, I enlisted as a volunteer at old Buena Vista, in Shelby county, in Captain Amerson's company, and was sworn into service by O.M. Roberts, he being our colonel. We were sworn in for twelve months, but in July we were re-organized and sworn in for three years, or during the war. At that time, A.B. Johnston was elected our captain. We were in Roberts'
regiment, Randle's Brigade and Walker's Division. We were known as "Walker's Greyhounds" on account of the many long, forced marches we had to take. Our military service was confined to the territory west of the Mississippi River, and called the Trans-Mississippi Department, and after the Confederate states were cut asunder by the gunboats taking possession of the Mississippi River, General E. Kirby Smith became head of the Trans-Mississippi Department, subject to the orders of
President Jeff Davis, of the Confederacy. Shreveport was headquarters for this department. We had many hardships of various kinds. We had no tents for shelter. We just had to take all kinds of weather as it came, rain, hail, sleet or snow, storm or sunshine. Our only house was what we called a "Doghouse," just tie strings to the four corners of, and the middle of, a blanket, stretch it over a pole, tuck it to the ground, then dig a ditch around it with a butcher knife. Two men could get on their knees,
crawl in and sleep as snug as two rats. Our battles in the Civil war, west of the Mississippi River, were all fought in the open field. Our mothers and sisters at home furnished with what clothes and blankets we used. The sutler, as we called him, would make trips at different times in a wagon from our homes to where we were camped and it might be in Louisiana, or Arkansas, or even in Missouri, he would come to us just the same. We were always glad to see him, for in addition to the blankets and clothes he also brought the dear sweet letters from home and the loved ones. During all these hardships I was not sick a single day, and never took a dose of medicine during the war. One of my brothers was severely wounded at the battle of Pleasant Hill, and I was detailed to go to the hospital at Mansfield and nurse and wait on him, and other wounded soldiers. I stayed there forty-seven days. The only time I was absent from the command during the war. After Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865, we were marched to Texas and were disbanded at Hempstead, about May 20, 1865. We then returned to our dilapidated homes to meet our loved ones. We had lost the cause for which we had fought and suffered so much. We were an over-powered people, and had to submit to the victors. However, in the face of all this, we were glad the war was over, and that we were at home again. So we just started life over again as from the start. Everything was torn up and run down. There was no money in the country. Foodstuff and plow tools were awfully scarce. We had to patch old implements and get along the best way we could. Many of us would plow all day, then bell or hobble our horse, or horses, and turn them out to grass. Next morning we would listen to hear the bell, then go and drive the horse up, hitch him to the plow and work again all day as before. I used to work for the blacksmith in order to get my plow fixed, and for the shoemaker to get my shoes. From the time I came home until my crop was harvested in the autumn I had only $1.50 and my mother gave me the money I had. I made a good crop. Cotton brought a good price and when I sold it the man who bought it paid me in gold. It was the prettiest money I have ever seen, or
ever expect to see again. It was all my own, for I had done without the things that I had needed so badly and I want to say just here that my experience that year taught me a gr

Hard times are not entirely gone, but the country is in better shape than it was years ago. Improvements of various kinds are showing up. But at the close of the period just mentioned, our family life had just begun, for our home had been blessed with a dear little son, and we felt the great responsibility that rested on us. As the years passed seven children came to bless our home, four boys and three girls. First, we wanted to keep the home lights burning. We wanted to set precept and good example, spiritually speaking before them, and raise them in the way that they should go, so when older they would not depart from it., and then to educate them for the work of life as best we could. We felt so thankful that the Lord had blessed us so much during all these long years. We lived to see them all grown, and become Christians, and all of them married to good, Christian companions, all established in business, and in homes of their own. The boys all holding diplomas in their profession. So as the years went on, these children passed out from the parental roof, and wife and I were left at home alone. The work of life seemed to be finished and now the children began to look after us. Then the shadow of sorrow came. The mother's health began to fail, and so we concluded to sell the dear old home where we had lived for more than forty years, and raised our dear
children, where we had experienced so many joys, and the trials incident to pioneer life, but our greatest trial was when dear mother's health began to give way. So we moved to Appleby, where she could have better medical attention, and be handier to the children, but in spite of all that mortal hands and loving hearts could do, the dear wife and mother gradually grew weaker, but her constitution was so strong that she held up for ten years, and at last on the 25th day of February, 1919, quietly went to sleep. Her gentle spirit passing on to the glory world. All the children were present when the end came, and so this was the saddest day of our lives, but the Lord's will be done, and we must all be submissive to that great Power above. We all felt so thankful for the good care of the doctors, friends and neighbors, for their love and sympathy in our trouble and sorrow.

We now wish to revert back to the pioneer days at Shady Grove. I will first name some of the settlers and the place on which they lived. Alfred Wallace built on what is now known as the old Rushing place, 200 yards south of the present cemetery, at a spring, in the year 1839. Tim Fuller, Bill Arnold, and others lived there. James Walling settled on what was known as the Felix Shirley place. William Summers, Davis King and Claiborne Weaver, preceded Shirley. John Reid settled the place where George Strahan now lives, in the year 1845. Larkin Chapman lived there for many years. James Bradshaw settled just in front of where Mrs. Layton now lives, about the year 1845. William Stone settled on the creek bank northeast of where Dave Strahan now lives in the year 1842. Brimbery, Malone and Stewart lived there about the same date. Old grandfather Strahan lived on what is now known as the Shadden place, Elijah Stack came about the year 1842. A little log house was built in what is now the yard of the Rushing place. In this little house was heard the first sermon ever preached in Shady Grove settlement. The first school was taught in that house. The writer is indebted to his old time friend Sam Reid, for these dates, as Mr. Reid lived in the Shady Grove community since 1845. In 1847, William Summers gave a deed to a small parcel of land to the community to be used for church and school grounds. A little log house was built and a Methodist church organized shortly afterward, I think in 1847.

We now come to the date of our own observation. I first visited Shady Grove community in 1866, and will mention some of those that were living there at that time: Rev. J. R. Cox, John Strahan, Claborn Weaver, Larkin Chatman, Bill Tynes, Sam Reid, Eleck Reid, Dave Strahan, Nancy Strahan, John L. Thrift, Bill Duke, Rev. Louis Chandler, James H. Green, Frank Inghram, Mrs. Gaughf, Mrs. Ross, and just a little later two boys got married and became permanent citizens, they were J. S. Day and J. B. Rushing. As the years passed by many others moved in. Those were reconstruction days just after the Civil War.
At that time there was trouble and confusion concerning the Carpetbaggers and Scalawags, but later this trouble all passed away and everybody seemed to be happy. For more than forty years not a single case came before the Courts from this Community.

A Methodist Church was organized there in about 1847. A Baptist Church was organized in 1888, and in 1889 a Union house was built and the two churches worshipped in the same house dividing the time equally, each having his own time. The two worked peaceably together helping each other in their revival meetings. Brotherly love surely did exist there. More Preachers, School Teachers, Doctors, Lawyers, and other business boys and girls have gone out from this community than any other in the county. God has surely blessed the good old community. I have been away from there for twenty years and improvements have been made. But when I go back there I can look back with pleasure and remember the merry happy days and hours I have spent there in the services of the Lord and especially the great revivals we had during those years when God so gloriously saved our children.

I will now give a more complete record of my ancestors. My Great Grandfather Rushing was born in England, date not known. Grandfather Jason Rushing and Grandmother Alice Rushing were born in Anson county North Carolina the dates forgotten. My uncles and aunts as follows: Malica Rushing born June 5th, 1798, Lucie Rushing born March 3, 1880, Asa Rushing born December 25th, 1801, Nancy Rushing born October 8th, 1803, Joel Rushing born September 5th, 1805, Mary Rushing born February 7th, 1808, Matilda Rushing born December 14, 1809, Barsheba Rushing born March 3, 1812, W. G.
Rushing born January 18, 1814, Abel Rushing born February 6, 1816, G. B. Rushing born August 5, 1818, Elijah Rushing born September 8, 1820.

My father's family as follows: Asa Rushing, born December 25, 1801, Mother, Nancy G. Rushing born March 2, 1803. Asa Rushing and Nancy G. Hendrick were married December 1st, 1825. The children are as follows: Green Berry Rushing born August 22, 1826, Elizabeth C. Rushing born February 18, 1828. Sallie E. Rushing born September 15, 1829, Mary Ann Rushing born September 21, 1831, Pheriba Jane Rushing born July 31, 1833, Tempy Alice Rushing born Mary 27, 1835, William Henry Rushing born August 5, 1837, Rosana M. Rushing born September 23, 1839, Elijah J. Rushing born December 27, 1841, John Bateman Rushing born April 21, 1845. The deaths of brothers and sisters are as follows: G. B. Rushing died November 20, 1905, Elizabeth C. Deese died March 17, 1911, Sallie Elender Rushing died in 1847, Mary Ann Emerson died in 1857, Jane Lacy died May 14, 1919, Tempy Alice Welch died May 22, 1866, W. H. Rushing died October 12, 1922, Rosanna M. Robertson died in 1893, E. J. Rushing died March 21, 1916. J. B. Rushing still living this the 21st of June 1930.

My father died October 15, 1851, a victim of the Flu. Mother died April 22, 1875 from a stroke of paralysis. My personal family are as follows: W. H. Rushing born February 10, 1869, and was married to Miss Nannie K. Bryan June 3, 1900. Nettie Rushing born December 25, 1870 and was married to D. L. Campbell December 2, 1886. Allie Rushing was born May the 18th, 1874, and married M. S. Dale October 17, 1890. Tennessee Rushing was born September 21, 1876 and married to R. C. White November 27, 1898. J. G. Rushing was born September 22, 1879 was married to Miss Jim Gholston June 12, 1906. A. E. Rushing was born August 3, 1882 and married to Miss Kate Tower October 22, 1908. A. O. Rushing
born April 5, 1885 was married to Miss Lelah V. Gunn July 29, 1915.

Deaths in the family are as follows: Mother Rushing died Feb. 25, 1910, age 69 years and 15 days, J. G. Rushing died Jan. 25, 1921, age 41 years 4 months 3 days. A. O. Rushing, Jr. Grandson of J. B. Rushing born Aug. 5, 1922, died Jan. 9, 1928. R. C. White died Dec. 26, 1927, age 58 years lacking one day. M. S. Dale died December 30, 1929 age 60 years three months and 8 days.

I will now say the Hendricks on my mother's side of the family were of German decent and came to this country in former days. They were large in body with big heads and feet. I will close this history by saying May God Bless You All, is my Prayer.
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Census: 1880, Nacogdoches, Texas; E.D. 49 page: 224B.
J.B. RUSHING Self M Male W 34 TN Farmer NC NC
Sarah RUSHING Wife M Female W 30 TX Housekeeping AL AL
William RUSHING Son S Male W 11 TX TN TX
Nettie F. RUSHING Dau S Female W 9 TX TN TX
Allie RUSHING Dau S Female W 6 TX TN TX
Sarah RUSHING Dau S Female W 3 TX TN TX
John RUSHING Son S Male W 9M TX TN TX
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